Fauziya

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Published: 16 September 2009 8:41 PM UTCPosted in: Tema del díaTags: ,

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Those eyes and that smile up there belongs to my daughter. When I took that photograph she was on her twelve that age when you begin to stop being a girl, but it’s a long time until feel women. At that time nothing was alright with her, always her hair was too smooth or too curly. She was never satisfied with clothes that I bought, chosen by me or by her. At that time she did not know what she would be devoted in the future, nor who would be her friends, nor she could not imagine the name of the person who shares his life with her now.

When I took that picture my daughter was a girl of twelve.

Today reading the newspaper I felt angry all the rage in the world.

* A girl married to the force dies giving birth in Yemen

A girl married to the force dies in childbirth in Yemen Fauziya, 12, who bled after three days of birth

Fauziya Yusef Abdullah was married on her twelve. She was married because of the misery in which her family lived immersed

Apparently 25% of Yemeni women married before fifteen. But we can rest easy because in February, the Yemeni Parliament approved a law that sets 17 as minimum age to marriage, no doubt a “great advance”.

But, then emerged the Ulema voices to challenge the law because they considered it as anti-Islamic.

The article’s author, Thomas Alcoverro, well connoisseur about Islamic culture, talks about the Sharia (Islamic law) and their different interpretations.

The only certainty is that Fauziya with only 12 years bled to death after three days on labor and the worst is that she was not the first nor the last.

Some things cannot be justified on cultural or religious differences.

Today is one of those days that I am ashamed of the human race.

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